75 percent of U.S. organizations say that competition with social media for recipients’ time and attention is either “very challenging” or “somewhat challenging” to their future success in email, according to a report released in February 2012 by Econsultancy in partnership with the Email Experience Council of the Direct Marketing Association. Other challenges to email’s success include young people abandoning email as their primary channel (69 percent), getting the deserved budget and attention (65 percent), and integrating email with other marketing channels (61 percent).
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